My Cheap-o Storage Solution

You know how sometimes when you're under stress because of a looming deadline or the arrival of a significantly life changing event, that you tend to become ... OCD? You start spring cleaning for no good reason, you re-arrange your furniture or you line up your books in alphabetical order. Well in my case, I became obsessive about storing the bits and tiny pieces of my boardgames... particularly the "17 trees worth of cardboard" (Uvulabob, 5:04) chits that comes in Le Havre...

Session - My wife tries to understand my hobby

To many board gamers out there, our spouses / significant others / soul mates look at our hobby and probably shake their heads in wonder at our engrossment, intense focus and long, time consuming, sleepless nights devoted to worker placement, resource gathering, victory point scoring and perhaps the most time consuming objective of all, world domination. For some of the fortunate ones out there, our loved ones do take that base-jumping leap of faith and give our hobby a try and I felt it to be such a momentous occasion for me that I had to blog about it.